Wednesday, April 10, 2024
When the Baltimore August Wilson Celebration was announced last week, the project was already off to a head-start. Arena Players had already planned “Gem of the Ocean” for their 70th sea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20AMMonday, April 8, 2024
In the familiar Grimms’ Fairy Tale version of the Hansel and Gretel story, a young brother and sister are left to starve in a forest, their father forced by a wicked stepmother to sacrific…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PMSaturday, March 23, 2024
Many theater companies like to talk about “challenging” their audiences or delivering “art with a message,” perhaps as an apology for forcing us to eat our proverbial vegetables. Som…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:47PMSunday, October 29, 2023
Jane E. Nitsch and Sam David. Photo by Machpe Protography. In “Guys and Dolls,” the character Nicely-Nicely experiences a rebirth of spirituality, scared straight by a dream which taught…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PMThursday, October 5, 2023
For many years the short play form has been a well-respected point of entry into writing for the stage. In the late 20th century, The Humana Festival popularized a sub-genre: the ten-minute …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:29AMSunday, September 3, 2023
If you had the ability and the means to customize your afterlife experience, would you do it? Baltimore’s Submersive Productions’ latest project casts its audience in the role of marketi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:55AMSunday, August 13, 2023
The season of summer blockbusters is upon us. Movie theaters everywhere are filled with big stories, employing big casts, and consuming big budgets. It’s enough to give one a sense of scre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:37PMWednesday, July 19, 2023
American linguist Einar Haugen coined the term “code-switching” in 1954, to describe “the mixing of languages or dialects across different ethnic or racial demographics.” A later wor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:22PMSunday, July 16, 2023
Maryland’s last historically recognized lynching happened on October 18, 1933. Playwright Jack L.B. Gohn used the date (but none of the other details) of George Armwood’s brutal torture …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:27AMSaturday, May 27, 2023
In 1946, 13-year-old Eunice Waymon made her piano concert debut. Her parents were forced to vacate their front row seats in the segregated venue. Eight years later, she found herself gigging…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PMSunday, May 21, 2023
“Cool Hand Luke” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” are both high on any list of classic films of the modern period. They’re the same kind of hero/martyr story, centered on on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:25PMFriday, May 19, 2023
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PMMonday, May 8, 2023
Barbara Kahn’s screwball comedy, “The Lady Was a Gentleman,” is a hilarious mélange of six disparate women in 1858 St. Louis. Charlotte Cushman (Julia Williams), a famous actor, is on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
In October, 1972, a new play made its world premiere in Cape Town, South Africa. Published under the title “Sizwe Bansi [sic] is Dead,” the piece was devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:19PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
“Henry VIII” is one of Shakespeare’s less frequently produced plays. It actually isn’t Shakespeare’s alone, rather, it was a collaboration with John Fletcher. Here is a fun fact (t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:01PMIn the 1980s and ‘90s, Christopher Durang was at the peak of his popularity. He’d arrived at precisely the right time, when the world of American stage comedy desperately needed an heir …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:42PMSunday, April 16, 2023
It is a chaotic time for several of Baltimore’s small theater companies. Stillpointe Theatre, Rapid Lemon Productions, and Baltimore Shakespeare Factory all lost their performance spaces a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:08PMSunday, April 2, 2023
It’s late at night. There’s a thunderstorm. A man unlocks the door to a moldy motel room and steps inside. He hopes to get a little rest after a long day of travel and giving speeches. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:14PMMonday, February 20, 2023
Through partnerships with Everyman, Olney, and Center Stage, Baltimore’s ArtsCentric is presenting its mainstage works in regional theaters all across the state. In fact, it’s been a min…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Fresh on the heels of a four million dollar grant award, Baltimore’s Arena Players is in high spirits. Renovations are still two years away, though, and the company is currently focused on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PMSunday, January 29, 2023
“We create only from familiar elements, the possibilities of which are enhanced by imagination.”– May Miller, “The Creative Urge,” Journal of National Association of College Women …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:01PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
At one point in his six-minute curtain speech, Spotlighters’ Executive Director and Managing/Artistic Director, Fuzz Roark, gives a telling description of “[title of show].” “It’s …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
The career of Neil Simon nestles neatly between two periods of daring exploration. He followed Beckett and Ionesco, toiling away writing for television while they made a revolution. When his…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:05AMSunday, December 11, 2022
The holidays are a time when many of us entertain out-of-town guests. It serves as a wonderful opportunity to show off our area to them. Family and friends whose ideas of Baltimore come from…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:44AMSunday, December 4, 2022
There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the gloriesof Christmases long, long ago– Eddie Pola & George Wyle, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” There’s a pecul…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:38PMMonday, November 21, 2022
For some of us, October is too short. Come Thanksgiving, we still crave the creepy and desire the demonic. Luckily, Stillpointe Theatre is serving up a frightening feast with all of the ghas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:56PMMonday, November 14, 2022
“Four white people can’t do a Thanksgiving play that doesn’t p*ss off the funders, or the parents, or the universe.” In a minefield, no movement is safe. When movement is the stated …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:34PMSunday, November 13, 2022
“People try to label you. Put you in a box. Try to make you one way, even if you’re not.” It began thirteen months ago, with a conversation. Multi-hyphenate artist Nate Couser called d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AMMonday, November 7, 2022
In the fifteen years since its founding, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society has been responsible for some incredibly ambitious productions of original material. The latest of these is “Love …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
Joshua Poole, Zachary Bryant, and Gabriel Hernandez. Photo by Katie Simmons-Barth. Was America’s 16th president gay? Does it matter? In the world premiere, chamber opera, “Yours Forever,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:23PMMonday, October 17, 2022
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”.– Aristotle “Why you wanna fly, Blackbird? You ain’t never gonna fly”.– Nina Simone A world premiere chore…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:52PM 
